Risk Manager, Equities

J ump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics Physics and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries push through them and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness creativity intellectual honesty and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design develop and deploy technologies that change our world fund start-ups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

As a Risk Manager you will be part of Jump Tradings Global Risk Management team. The department manages moment-to-moment risk for all trading teams and is responsible for evaluating new trading strategies markets and products. Furthermore the risk team is responsible for working with Core Development and Technology teams to advance the firms internal risk layer metrics and reporting. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with strong risk management expertise technical skills and proven experience operating at a high bar within high-pressure environments.

What Youll Do :

• Serve as the NYC go-to operational risk partner : set and monitor exposure limits and guardrails with front office and Global Risk; operate existing controls and alerting; investigate escalate and document exceptions.
• Monitor factor / sector and liquidity / correlation exposures across strategies and firm-level aggregates using firm-provided tools; collaborate with Market Risk and front office to review scenario / stress outputs align on assumptions and communicate practical implications.
• Perform daily and intraday risk monitoring to identify and escalate material exposures concentrations anomalies and control exceptions across regions.
• Apply practical US equity market microstructure knowledgeto inform monitoring limits controls and scenarios.
• Liaise with internal partners and external prime brokers clearing firms and exchanges on margin / financing locates market access controls and corporate actions.
• Triage trade-lifecycle issues (trade capture allocations reconciliations market data connectivity) with Trading OperationsClearing Treasury Technology and Compliance.
• Use Python / SQL / Excel to query firm datasets and automate light reporting where helpful.
• Other duties as assigned or needed to ensure smooth business operations.

Skills Youll Need :

Cash equities most preferred. Equity derivatives and index products also useful.

Benefits

Annual Base Salary Range

$150000 $200000 USD

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Arm,Risk Management,Financial Services,Cybersecurity,COSO,PCI,Root cause Analysis,COBIT,NIST Standards,SOX,Information Security,RMF

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1